Moderation Quotes - Page 20

• Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.

  Plutarch

  Grief, Evil, Feelings

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• I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation.

  Nick Offerman

  Pounds, Appetite, Strict

  "Ron Swanson of Parks & Rec vs. Nick Offerman: The Food Interview". Interview with Elina Shatkin, www.laweekly.com. November 22, 2011.

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• Moderation means prevention. Prevention means achieving much virtue.

  Laozi

  Mean, Taoism, Prevention

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• The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.

  Paul Valery

  Giving, Balance, World

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• Heaven is weary of the luxury of China. I shall remain in the wilderness of the north. I shall return to simplicity and moderations once again. As for the clothes I wear and the food I eat, I shall have the same as cowherds and grooms and I shall treat my soldiers as brothers. In a hundred battles I have been at the forefront and within seven years I have performed a great work, for in six directions of space all things are subject to one ruler.

  Genghis Khan

  Brother, Luxury, Clothes

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• Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you?
  Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.

  A.C. Grayling

  Children, Party, Hands

  A. C. Grayling (2011). “The Good Book: A Secular Bible”, p.42, A&C Black

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• I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. ... I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - AND I WILL BE HEARD.

  John Paul Stevens

  Writing, Thinking, Justice

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